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Gordon said the chances of winning a claim are small but are worth putting in for, continuing: “I’ve put claims in twice and never got anywhere with them.

“The problem is being able to prove that the pothole has caused damage to your car. That can be difficult if it’s something like a broken spring.”

He told how the waiting time between reporting a pothole and getting it fixed can be significant, adding: “I actually reported a serious pothole outside one of our premises where I had customers coming in with damaged tyres because of it. It got so big, we put a cone in it but a lorry ended up driving over the cone. I had to report it a third time before anything was done.”

Anybody claiming for damage must submit an insurance claim form which is then passed to the council’s insurance team, where it is assessed by independent claims handlers.

Claims are rejected if no fault can be attributed to the local authority.

The council told the Lennox Herald that any required road repairs are triggered by reports from West Dunbartonshire Council inspectors, roads staff and members of the public.

The authority says it has ‘find and fix squads’ who attend and fix multiple defects in the same area if required.

Typically an individual repair would take between 10 minutes and one hour depending on factors, including the location of the pothole as well as its severity.

A council spokeswoman said it has spent millions upgrading the local roads over the past year.

She said: “Since 2018, West Dunbartonshire Council has invested more than £6million to make improvements to its road network, including major resurfacing work.”